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Can standard radiation treatments replace surgery for some breast cancer patients?

As chemotherapy treatments improve, patients who respond well may be able to skip surgery with a low chance of recurrence.

Referrer–radiologist agreement nets 75% follow-up imaging rate, and certain factors can inform interventions for the other 25%

When referring physicians agree with radiologists’ recommendations on the clinical necessity of follow-up imaging, three-quarters of patients go on to complete the additional exam.

Automated, EMR-based screening proves preventive as well as curative

After programming its EMR to automatically order ultrasound screenings for people at risk of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), a healthcare system saw a 540% spike in monthly screening exams for the condition over a six-year period.

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Contrast-enhanced mammography to get rigorous tryout under ACR’s oversight

Might mammography enhanced by contrast media prove a surer, faster way than other modalities—including digital breast tomosynthesis—to get to a definitive diagnosis for women with dense breast tissue? The American College of Radiology wants to know.

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Depression treatments can change the brain’s infrastructure in just 6 weeks

The adult brain may be more malleable than scientists previously thought, according to new research presented at the 35th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Psychiatry, neuroradiology researchers find imaging markers of inheritable depression

Children are at heightened risk of major clinical depression when at least one parent has a history of the disorder. New research shows depression markers appearing on structural and functional brain MRI ahead of symptoms in these “familial risk” offspring from infancy through early adulthood.

Brain imaging scans unlock mysteries about depression and resilience

The new findings may contain important implications for neuromodulation therapies to treat depression symptoms.

Female Medical Research Scientist Working with Brain Scans

FDA approves AI analysis of high-grade gliomas

An AI startup in the neuro-oncology space has received the government’s go-ahead to market software for analyzing certain fast-growing brain tumors on MRI.

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.